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[-] Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 7 months ago

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/time-to-rethink-corn/

36% of corn grown in the US goes to feeding livestock. Not including the stuff you're talking about like byproducts from ethanol and such.

[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Yep, and that 36% is dead corn that the gov tells farmers to grow, they pay farmers to grow it so we don't have a famine. The majority is sold over seas and turned into ethanol. The rest that we eat is mainly HFCS. So no we don't grow it directly to feed animals, it's grown and not used, so the stuff left in the fields to dry is harvestes whole and tossed into grain. You might want to read your own article.

[-] Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 7 months ago

You keep trying to have it both ways. You've finally conceded that there's 36% of land used to grow livestock feed. But now it's time to shift the poles somewhere else. At least you've started reading and trying to back up what you're saying.

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